Spacing dimensions

- [Voiceover] As usual, we're staying in the…09_Dimensioning.dwg file.…Now you'll notice, I've zoomed out to the…extent of the drawing.…As I've said previously, good CAD practice…to do this once in a while and just check…what your drawing looks like from a distance.…If it doesn't look right at a distance,…it won't look right close up either.…Now I've obviously saved the model views…in the drawing as per previous videos…so we're gonna go over to our View control here,…click on the word Top, and select Custom Model Views.…We're gonna zoom into the Office model view…in this particular drawing, like so,…and what we're going to do, we're gonna just…place some linear dimensions from this…gridline here to some of the window opening areas,…these blue ones here.…

So you might want to actually pan and zoom in…a bit closer to see what you're doing.…So I'm gonna zoom in like that and I want to…work from this gridline here and I'm just…gonna place two or three dimensions…to these windows here.…Now, these don't have to be exact because…

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3/21/2017

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